Harry James Lincoln was a music composer from Williamsport

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. Aside from running his own publication company, he wrote many marches

March (music)

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 and rags

Ragtime

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, such as the Bees Wax Rag (1911), the Lincoln Highway

Lincoln Highway

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two step march (1921), and quite possibly the Repasz Band March (1929). This last composition, created for the local Repasz Band (now the oldest brass band still in existence), has also been credited to its trombonist Charles C. Sweeley; however, evidence indicates that Sweeley had bought rights to the march from Lincoln.

Lincoln used pseudonyms Abe Losch ("Losch" was the maiden name of his mother), Carl Loveland, and Harry Jay.

Selected compositions

• A Jolly Sailor
• Alameda Waltzes (1908)
• American Emblem (1923)
• Bang Up Two Step (1913)
• Bees Wax Rag (1911) (Click here to hear it)
• Belle of the Season (1924)
• Blaze of Honour (1915)
• Canonade (1928)
• Circus Life (1914)
• Dance Of The Fairies (1912)
• Dixie A Rag Caprice (1911)
• Dreaming at Twilight (1915)
• Dreamy Swanee Lullaby — a collaboration of Lincoln and George C. Pennington — (1917)
• Emblem of Peace (1923)
• Excuse Me But Isn't Your Name Johnson? (1907)
• Ferns and Flowers
• Flowers of the Forest
• Garden of Lilies (1913)
• Girls of America (1923)

Family

Lincoln married Lottie Mae Lincoln sometime around 1898. They had a daughter, Margaret.

External Links

• Sheet music for "Repasz Band: March and Two Step", Vandersloot Music Co., 1904.